ORIGINAL PLACE CALLED KWALE

 

Map of kwale in Delta state, Nigeria

Dr Ejiro Imuere

Fact: The Original Place which the Europeans called Kwale was "Abraka". It was so called because it was the original headquarters of the Kwale District....But when the Abraka people revolted that they were Urhobos, and not Ukwuanis, and so be removed from the Kwale Division, to Western Urhobo Division, they were told that they would lose the headquarters. As usual they didn't care.

  And so the British moved "Kwale" from Abraka to Otagba Ugbe around 1938. Otagba Ugbe, was now changed to Kwale.

The Original Kwale Division was large it comprised the Ukwuanis, the Abraka Urhobos, Orogun Urhobos, some Isoko areas and Agbon KINGDOM.

Fact: BY  OBIAKS PROJECT: UKWUANI AND URHOBO PEROPLE UP TO 1900

Ukwuani And Urhobo people Up to 1900 By  Obiaks Project

If the Abraka people were not real Urhobo men, they would have accepted that name for their settlements, that King would have been the Obi, or Okparuku of Kwale, and he would have claimed Over lordship of all the Kwale Division simply because they were in the Kwale Division.

But not for an Urhobo man he will not deny his roots and he will not also covet another man's own.